I am not really scared of anything. I have been under the ocean and faced all types of creatures, I have been in the desert and faced poisonous animals, i have jumped out of airplanes and sat on the edge of the Grand Canyon. However, if I see a mouse or a rat I will yell at the top of my lungs and go into full panic mode. When I go into a pet store I have to be careful what aisle I go down so I don't accidentally see any. If I happen to see one in my yard left by a cat I need to call a neighbor to remove it. So what phobias do others have?
I'm afraid of heights....... so I went skydiving and got my pilot's license. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” ― Joseph Campbell
I found skydiving fairly boring so never did it again. I always did want to get a pilot license though. I have no fear of heights but something like this would freak me out. [video=youtube_share;FHtvDA0W34I]http://youtu.be/FHtvDA0W34I[/video]
When you're standing at the door of a Cessna 182, with your foot on the step-pedal (and the other foot 3000 feet above the Earth)....and you're afraid of heights?....you're almost terrified beyond rational thought. Then you jump....at that point you're "committed" and (in my case) either the cord will open your chute....or you'll need to pull the reserve....or you die. Period. Then the chute opens....and you're floating in utter silence half a mile up....and the fear is gone....because, again, you're committed and nothing can be done at that point. As for flying....sitting in the left-hand chair, pulling back on the yoke, and you pull off the active.....then it's like driving a car.....with a "great view"....and again, there is no fear. I'll take it up to 8000-9000 feet and it's no big deal. But get me in a glass walled 20 story office building....I need double tequilla shots.
I had to tandem jump, they said I couldn't jump solo. Unless you had your own chute I am not sure how you did it because I don't know of any company that would rent one to a first time jumper. It's like renting scuba tanks, you have to show you are certified first. I remember the guy I was jumping with kept telling me not to throw up whatever I did lol.
This was the Old Days....80s. Paid an ex-Airborne Vietnam vet guy $50 and got a static line jump. Plus the reserve had an emergency altimeter release....get to 1000 and the main or reserve hadn't opened?....it fired off the reserve. You could literally pass out once you jumped and be fine.
Ahhh the free fall was fun but the float down I just found boring. I would love to get a ride in a fighter jet sometime. I used to work for Boeing and would go up on the occasional test flight when they stressed the plane and that was awesome.
Wasn't but 2-3 seconds of free-fall with a static line jump.....but I found the "float down" serene. Haven't flown in a fighter JET......but DID get to take the stick in an AT-6 Texan trainer once (after the pilot got us to altitude...he just let you "go for it"). Did some split-Ss, Immelmans, high speed turns. Also got to sit in the left-hand chair of a B-17....bank it a little....but that's not flying...that just "management".
Yep. "Aluminum Overcast"....she toured the country in the early 90s. For a "donation" to their historical society, you got to go up with 5-6 other guys....walk around inside the plane (not the tail gun or ball turret)....and get 10 minutes in the pilot's chair.
Handling large pieces of glass. Like a large mirror or sliding glass doors. When I was a kid a neighbor friend came running outside (where I was playing)...he had a huge gash on his forearm which was bleeding badly. He had accidently ran through the slider door. I think that's where my phobia of glass stems from.
Never heard of that one before but nothing is wrong with it. I knew a girl once who was afraid of steam and fog. She would go into panic attacks.
Adults vomiting. If someone even feels a little queasy I can't be in the same room. Thankfully, none of my kids vomited after early childhood (which I'm fine with, oddly).
A phobia is an irratinal fear. I think my fears are rational. I get queasy and nervous with hights, but falling could be deadly, so my fear keeps me safe. I fear poisonous snakes because they can kill you. The only one i ever had was a fear of caterpillars, they would drop out of the trees on me as a child and freak me all kinds of out. but i got over it watching monarch caterpillars eat and turn into butterflies.
Dentist's, I really am terrified of them. Pulled my own teeth out rather than go to a dentist. You mark my words, if there is an anti christ he will be a dentist. It is not as if I have had a bad experience with one as a child or anything, I can tell you how stupid it is now, but get me near a dentist...................
We get some big nasty looking web spiders in Oklahoma. I had to walk to tree stands in the dark wondering if I was going to run into one of them, yikes. I always had to wave a stick in front of me.
It's like Robin Williams said....."God must have been stoned when he created the platypus. I mean look at it. (doing a stoner) "Okay...okay....I'm gonna take a beaver...and slap a duck's face on it. (giggles)" *(btw, no....not an endorsement of Creationism...just a joke)
I fear home repairs that are coming up. I fear that my career might dead end at some point. I fear that my girlfriend isn't the one I should marry. I fear my football team losing games. I fear doing poorly on in school. I fear that I am never going to get in shape. I have lots of fears.
